steffenbn From Denmark, joined Apr 2010, 220 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 2750 times:
Hey guys!
Long story short. - How do I fly these NAT's?
I know where to find the current NAT's and all that but what data do I put into the Flight Planner program?
- Thanks in Advance!
p.s. I'm using the following add on's when "crossing the pond"
- PMDG 747-400X
- FlightSim Commander 9
- Simplates X
- Fuel Planner
- kACARS (To log my hours)
- (when ATC available) Ivap
wilco737 From Greenland, joined Jun 2004, 7997 posts, RR: 84 Reply 3, posted (5 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2600 times:
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Quoting steffenbn (Reply 2): No, I don't mean the FMC, I have a Flight Planner Program (http://www.fscommander.com/screenshots.htm).
Never heard of that program, but looks nice.
Quoting steffenbn (Reply 2): I just have to enter 5350N, 5540N, 5630N and 5620N in the FMC
I don't know about the planner program, but in the real wolrd 747 FMC you enter the TATL waypoints only 5350N etc as you mentioned and then always the full degrees are meant:
5350N is the same as: N53°00'00.00" W050°00'00.00"
steffenbn From Denmark, joined Apr 2010, 220 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (5 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 2547 times:
Quoting wilco737 (Reply 3): Never heard of that program, but looks nice.
It sure is
Quoting wilco737 (Reply 3): I don't know about the planner program, but in the real wolrd 747 FMC you enter the TATL waypoints only 5350N etc as you mentioned and then always the full degrees are meant:
5350N is the same as: N53°00'00.00" W050°00'00.00"
Thanks - now I can start flying NAT's!
-Maybe you could give a real lesson someday , Haha just kiddin'
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 826 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (5 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2541 times:
Quoting wilco737 (Reply 3): I don't know about the planner program, but in the real wolrd 747 FMC you enter the TATL waypoints only 5350N etc as you mentioned and then always the full degrees are meant:
IIRC, if you use 53N50 you will get N53 W150, which can be handful for transpac.
Quoting steffenbn (Reply 4): -Maybe you could give a real lesson someday , Haha just kiddin'
I could use that too. There was a big "crossing the pond" event on IVAO today, too bad I couldnt join in for work reasons. Not that I know much about NAT flying anyway. Basically all my knowledge stems from one Leisure 767 video (I think JustPlanes).
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Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2916 posts, RR: 51 Reply 8, posted (5 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 2446 times:
FWIW, when I'm flying trans-oceanic flight plans that have lat/long coordinate waypoints, I enter them in the form NXXWXXX and it works perfectly. Obviously, this can be changed to S and E, respectively.
The MD11 FMC is totally different to the Boeing one. The MD11 is closer to the Airbus one actually. Of course not that advanced, but the basic function.
I cannot remember how we entered the coordinates into the MD11 FMC, already too long ago since I flew this bird
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